Are You Hep to Jive | Cab Calloway

Are You Hep to Jive | Cab Calloway | Solid boys, I dig!!

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	Are You Hep to Jive Cab Calloway Sony, 1994 average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The influence of Cab Calloway simply cannot be understated. He was present at the genesis of R&B, rock, hip-hop, swing, and jazz, and his contributions shaped the way the world hears pop music. Thankfully, this task fell upon the zoot-suited shoulders of an artist of wit, intelligence, energy, and the ability to connect one-on-one with his audience. This collection includes tracks from the late '30s up to the late '40s and offers listeners a taste of all Calloway's incredible talents. From his hepster raps like "Are You All Reet?" to his hits like "Minnie the Moocher," Calloway's performances are carefully orchestrated yet loose-limbed and sparkling with humor, and for recordings in mono, the sound is surprisingly good. Highly recommended. --S. Duda

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Love This!

I love this collection from Cab Calloway.

It's great for driving or cooking in the kitchen...
and my six year old selects this when she needs something
"jazzy" to dance to.

There are many rocking songs with great lyrics.
...Have a banana Hannah...

If you like old time and big band style jazz
I think you will like this.
I love it.

Solid boys, I dig!!

Ok folks, I know nothing about jazz. I couldn't tell you the difference between Coltrane and a choo-choo train. But, I can tell you with complete authority that this CD is the most complete, undiluted, unadulterated expression of pure joy I've ever heard. Listening to this collection is like taking a happy pill!

If contemporary artists have any pretense to being "cool" or "hip", they need only to investigate Calloway and his music for a reality check. This man is the real thing, the founder, the patriarch of generations of hipster wannabes.

There's not a bad cut on this release. Pop it in, turn it up, and prepare to take a lesson from the Professor of Jive!

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Wonderful high precision band music terrific sections!

As a long time total devotee of Basie, admirer of Ellington, and enthusiast for Lunsford, I had always Pooh Poohed Calloway as an "act" fronting a jivey entertainer, rather than a contributor to the history of big bands, an attitude other big band swing fans I know share.

This CD completely blew me away with the total precision and swing of this band. While the band has few explosive solos--Calloway was said to eschew solo performances by the band because he demanded the spotlight--there is utter precision, total swing, and awsome power in the way the sections, particularly the brass section execute their parts here. At times, I have been simply stunned by the way the brass section will come in with a soli or battle over the reeds. It is an education in music to hear this.

Listening this morning to my beloved Basie--late 30s Columbia tracks from a Lester Young Box--while the outstanding solos of Prez, Clayton, Tate, Edison and the underrated and the underrated and underappreciated Jack Washington are astounding at times, the band sounds week and reedy after listening to these Calloway sides. Of course, much of the music on this Calloway record is post-war with much better recording than anyone could have recorded in the 1930s, but the precision and perfect unity of Calloway's sections in time and intonation remain vastly superior to Basie's.

Of course, the band itself might be a marvel to a student of the big band, but anyone who cannot get into the great jivey singing Callow does needs mental health care. His clear diction and magnificent tenor, sometimes half-talking, half singing, and the swing that he advances the lyrics filled with Harlem slang of the time is a great pleasure. His approach prefigures rap music with both rhythm and words.

This is one of those CDs that once you put it in the machine, it becomes a struggle to get it out.

It belongs in every home

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Unique, Fun, Irrepressible

If you think you'll like it, you will!

Some of these numbers stand as musical classics, a couple are a little bizarre, and some are culturally interesting (and not PC by today's standards.) Take them in the right context and enjoy.

The tracks sound great and I smile every time I listen.

Cab Calloway =- the 1940's

Calloway moved effortlessly from ther '30's to the '40's with style and grace. Look for the [...] production number of "The Jumpin' Jive."

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Tracks
Boo-Wah Boo-Wah - Cab Calloway, Clinton, Larry | Are You All Reet? - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab | Hey Now, Hey Now - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab | Everybody Eats When They Come to My House - Cab Calloway, Burns, J. | Are You Hep to the Jive? - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab | The Calloway Boogie - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab | Hep Cat's Love Song - Cab Calloway, Boyd, Max | Papa's in Bed with His Britches On - Cab Calloway, Stone, Jesse | What's Buzzin' Cousin? [#] - Cab Calloway, Gordon, Mack | Twee-Twee-Tweet - Cab Calloway, Maxwell, Robert | Come on with the "Come On" - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab | Chant of the Jungle [#] - Cab Calloway, Brown, Nacio Herb | I Want to Rock - Cab Calloway, Clinton, Larry | Oh! Gram'Pa - Cab Calloway, Calloway | The Jungle King (You Ain't Done a Doggone Thing) - Cab Calloway, Dixon, Mort | Don't Falter at the Alter [#] - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab | Who's Yehoodi? - Cab Calloway, Dennis, Matt [1] | A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird - Cab Calloway, Wallace, E.B. | Tarzan of Harlem - Cab Calloway, Fein, Lupin | Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab | Boog It - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab | Foo a Little Bally-Hoo - Cab Calloway, Calloway, Cab

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